HOW THE TPP COULD LEAD TO WORLDWIDE INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Corporate monstrosity still has to pass Congress

On Monday, we learned that global “leaders” had come to an agreement on the infamous Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP. While discouraging, this doesn’t mean the game is over — far from it.

Although politicians have come to a secret agreement, this democracy killing, corporate monstrosity still has to pass the U.S. Congress. So it’s now up to all of us to create an insurmountable degree of opposition and make sure this thing is dead on arrival.

The more I learn about the TPP, the more horrified I become. In case you need to get up to speed, check out the following:

The “disastrous” pro-corporate trade deal finalized Monday could kill the Internet as we know it, campaigners are warning, as they vow to keep up the fight against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations.

“Internet users around the world should be very concerned about this ultra-secret pact,” said OpenMedia’s digital rights specialist Meghan Sali. “What we’re talking about here is global Internet censorship. It will criminalize our online activities, censor the Web, and cost everyday users money. This deal would never pass with the whole world watching—that’s why they’ve negotiated it in total secrecy.”

If that part isn’t obvious by now, I don’t know what is.

TPP opponents have claimed that under the agreement, “Internet Service Providers could be required to ‘police’ user activity (i.e. police YOU), take down Internet content, and cut people off from Internet access for common user-generated content.”

Furthermore, “The fact that close to 800 million Internet users’ rights to free expression, privacy, and access to knowledge online hinged upon the outcome of squabbles over trade rules on cars and milk is precisely why digital policy consideration[s] do not belong in trade agreements,”Sutton added, referring to the auto and dairy tariff provisions that reportedly held up the talks.

“Successive leaks of the TPP have demonstrated that unless you are a big business sector, the [U.S. Trade Representative, or USTR] simply doesn’t care what you have to say,” wrote EFF’s Jeremy Malcolm.

“If you like your freedom of speech, you can keep your freedom of speech.”

I posted Alex Jones’ full interview with Matt Drudge on my site yesterday. If I recall correctly a Supreme Court Justice has told Drudge that his site will be shut down by the high court using copyright rules as the excuse. It will be illegal to link to another site, which is what Drudge and we do. The power elites really want to shut up dissident voices, don’t they?

Drudge also had a number of other alarming things to say. As he put it, the American people are sick. Their embrace of tyranny is remarkable except when you consider that the white middle class is dead, replaced by parasites from foreign lands whose only goal is to freeload off us while demanding we kowtow to their supremacist agenda. Mexicans demand the whole North American continent as theirs, blacks demand reparations for slavery, while Muslims demand mosques everywhere and Sharia law. Is this all an accident? Nope, I vote for conspiracy.

I haven’t seen the whole interview, but yes, a justice has told Drudge that they have the votes and that it will soon be illegal to link to original material or to even use headlines. Talk about stifling the free flow of information…